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For his first institutional solo exhibition in German-speaking Switzerland, alfatih works across the six rooms of the former tax office on the second floor of the Kunsthaus, which was once the town hall. The building is built on water: the River Langete flows beneath it. Its historic flood protection system and regular flooding earned the town the nickname Little Venice. The setting of the exhibition thus reflects the tension between planning and order on the one hand, and unforeseen elements that threaten to undermine them on the other. This tension also forms the basis of alfatih‘s new works, which have been created for the exhibition. Time Leaks is an investigation into the rules of games and what happens when their logic begins to falter.
The author and philosopher Giorgio Agamben once described an opaque and unyielding machinery that influences and monopolises individuals in their everyday lives as an Apparatus—he includes everyday administrative processes and devices such as…
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For his first institutional solo exhibition in German-speaking Switzerland, alfatih works across the six rooms of the former tax office on the second floor of the Kunsthaus, which was once the town hall. The building is built on water: the River Langete flows beneath it. Its historic flood protection system and regular flooding earned the town the nickname Little Venice. The setting of the exhibition thus reflects the tension between planning and order on the one hand, and unforeseen elements that threaten to undermine them on the other. This tension also forms the basis of alfatih‘s new works, which have been created for the exhibition. Time Leaks is an investigation into the rules of games and what happens when their logic begins to falter.
The author and philosopher Giorgio Agamben once described an opaque and unyielding machinery that influences and monopolises individuals in their everyday lives as an Apparatus—he includes everyday administrative processes and devices such as…


































































